Various. Tin House (PGW, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-935639-96-1
Marking the 30th anniversary of the nonprofit Literary Arts in Oregon, this collection of 10 lectures from celebrated writers reanimates the humanistic argument that, far from being a “marginal cultural activity,” the production of serious literary...
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Marilynne Robinson, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $13 (219p) ISBN 978-0-374-52518-7
A reissue of the contemporary feminist classic. (Sept.)
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-28221-9
This collection of 15 essays by Pulitzer-winning author Robinson (The Givenness of Things) is sometimes cranky and rambling, but always passionate. Robinson’s crankiness comes out in her love of Puritans, Calvinists, and Oliver Cromwell, and her...
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374298-470
This probing, provocative collection by Pulitzer winner Robinson (Gilead) argues for the recovery of humanism as
a response to the problems of our historical moment. Robinson's is a "humanism articulated in the terms of Christian metaphysics,"...
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-18761-3
This third of three novels set in the fictional plains town of Gilead, Iowa, is a masterpiece of prose in the service of the moral seriousness that distinguishes Robinson’s work. This time the narrative focuses on Lila, the young bride of elderly...
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (204p) ISBN 978-0-374-29878-4
Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Gilead, Robinson weighs in with a series of tightly developed essays, some personal but mostly more general, on the Big Themes: social fragmentation in modern America, human frailty, faith. Her project is a
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Marilynne Robinson, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (247p) ISBN 978-0-374-15389-2
Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping
(1981) will find that the long wait has been worth it. From the first page of her second novel, the voice of Rev. John Ames mesmerizes with his account of his life—and that of his father and
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Marilynne Robinson, Author Ballantine Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36740-2
Great Britain, the world's largest commercial producer of plutonium, also leads the world in environmental pollution, Robinson claims. In what PW termed a ``convincing, explosive expose,'' British economic and social history is examined to prove...
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Marilynne Robinson, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-21361-9
Few Americans are aware that the world's largest commercial producer of plutonium is Great Britain, which also, according to the author, leads the world in environmental pollution. For 35 years, the British government has manufactured and...
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Marilynne Robinson, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (325p) ISBN 978-0-374-29910-1
Robinson's beautiful new novel, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead
, is an elegant variation on the parable of the prodigal son's return. The son is Jack Boughton, one of the eight children of Robert Boughton, the
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Marilynne Robinson, Author, Houghton Mifflin Company, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-92692-5
""My intention, my hope, is to revive interest in... John Calvin. If I had been forthright about my subject, I doubt that the average reader would have read this far."" That's the introduction to one essay, but it could also apply to most of...
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Marilynne Robinson, read by Maggie Hoffman. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3011-9
Robinson’s novel, set in the fictional Iowa village of Gilead, trades in stillness and restraint. The challenge for recording an audiobook with this material is capturing its subtlety. There is no large cast of characters, all needing individual...
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Marilynne Robinson, Author, Maggi-Meg Reed, Read by , read by Maggi-Meg Reed. Macmillan Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0510-0
Robinson's third novel, and second returning to the Iowan home of ministers John Ames and Robert Boughton, is a conflict between the responsible father and his prodigal son. Robinson's style is old-fashioned, puzzling over timeless...
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Marilynne Robinson, Author, Becket Royce, Read by , read by Becket Royce. Audio Renaissance $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-786-3
Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle," says Ruthie, the novel's narrator. The same may be said of Becket Royce's subtle, low-keyed reading. The interwoven themes of loss and love, longing and loneliness—&
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Edited by Judy Sternlight. Simon & Schuster, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6519-8
This appealing collection, edited by Brown alum Sternlight, is neither an ode to the institution nor a glossy publicity stunt marking the university’s 250th anniversary. It’s a relaxed roundtable of reminiscences from accomplished graduates—writers,
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-27930-1
Robinson’s stellar, revelatory fourth entry in her Gilead cycle (after Lila) focuses on Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of a Gilead, Iowa, minister, and the beginnings of his romance with Della Miles before his 1957 return to Gilead in Home. Jack,...
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Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-29940-8
Novelist Robinson (The Death of Adam) offers a dense yet immersive close reading of the book of Genesis. Employing literary and theological lenses, the author frames the biblical book as an exemplary narrative and the figures within it as characters
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